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Virtual Nick Wooler

Thursday Aug 19, 2010

Security is hard! However, the tools that you use to protect your identities should not be.

Security is hard because of a number of specific environmental, economic and business driven reasons. One, the threat vectors are growing at exponential rates. This is driven by the fact that the financial rewards for exploiting data and information are increasing globally. Whether the data is stolen identities, pricing information for the new release of a product. fraud on internal or external purchases or any of the other 1000 different nefarious threat vectors, businesses and consumers need to be protected.

Two, the number of identities, devices and service providers is also increasing. The internet is the way we do business globally. It is the path to which our customers purchase, partners exchange data, and business provide services within their network. And, at the heart of every exchange of data is an identity. This identity has critical attributes about an individual that drive the appropriate access to information and services.

Three, organizations are under increasing regulatory pressure. Whether it is SOX, FERPA, HIPPA, JSOX, etc. there are access management controls that must be in place to ensure the CFO, CTO and CEO can sign the compliance documents necessary to manage risk in their business.

This is a complex environment. Why do the tools that we use to manage access and security within our organization have to be equally complex. This is why F5 and Oracle have been working together to bring a solution which simplifies access management. The Big IP Solution is a great way for organizations to simplify access management. Whether they are integrating multiple Single-Sign-On products with Oracle Access Manager or using this appliance to simplify their IT infrastructure. The result is faster time to market, faster time to deployment and faster time to security.

On Thursday, August 26. We are hosting a webcast that will take you through the solution and talk about why we believe this will simplify Access Management. Please join us as F5 and Oracle product experts explain this simple solution.

Thursday Sep 10, 2009

If you haven't noticed, Oracle published this ad to Sun Customer's today in the Wall Street Journal. Just in case you missed it, you can see it here. As an ex-coach and former water polo player, the quote resonates. The Directory Server Enterprise team continue to deliver. Watch this space as we get ready to release DSEE 7.0.

Wednesday Nov 14, 2007

Jonathon Schwartz today delivered his keynote address at Oracle Open World and during that presentation, seen in it's entirety here . During the keynote he previewed the xVM Ops Center product that Sun is building to help companies manage their virtual and physical assets. The product will help companies Discover bare metal in their environments, provision operating systems to get up and running faster, monitor and manage the hardware and operating systems, and keep them up-to-date. The benefit for customers is that they will be able to manage their physical and virtual assets in a more cost effective and efficient manner allowing resources to focus on more high-value tasks.

Of course, Sun is committed to customer choice and is committed to supporting communities like libvirt. You can find out more about the libvirt commmunity here . Sun will use the open source community to help maximize innovation and customer choice. If you want more information about our open source plans and please see Openxvm.org here.

This is exciting times in the data center as virtualization matures and companies like Sun help customers find tools to help them manage their entire lifecycle. There will be more to come on this topic and a few previews in the next coming weeks.

Lastly, if you want to read more about some of the people that are influencing the direction of this strategy at Sun, please read some of the following blogs.

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Sharing 12 years of technology experience as developer, product and program manager, and marketing director. Identity Management, Security, and Product Management issues occupy my mind during the working day. Water Polo keeps me healthy.